Resources for Statistics TAs

This document provides a library of course handouts, teaching basics, and latex and html primers.

Here's Giles' HappyGrader handout for students on how to successfully prepare their work for grading.
In .ps format or the original .tex file.

• 1.1 TA Responsibilities and tips
• 1.2 RA Responsibilities and tips
• 1.3 A template of our TA evaluation form, to be used by students enrolled in the class

• Here's a webpage recommended by Armin Schwartzman: http://www.tug.org/tutorials/tugindia/
• 2.1 Getting Started with LaTeX Tutorial

  This "Getting Started with LaTeX Tutorial" is by David Wilkins and from http://www.maths.tcd.ie/~dwilkins/LaTeXPrimer.

  In addition to the HTML pages listed below, the primer Getting Started with LaTeX is also available in the form of a LaTeX2e input file, and as a DVI file (which can for example be viewed on X-terminals using some World-Wide Web browsers including NCSA Mosaic.)

• Introduction to LaTeX
• TeX and LaTeX
• A Typical LaTeX Input File
• Characters and Control Sequences
• Producing Simple Documents using LaTeX
• Producing a LaTeX Input File
• Producing Ordinary Text using LaTeX
• Blank Spaces and Carriage Returns in the Input File
• Quotation Marks and Dashes
• Section Headings in LaTeX
• Changing Fonts in Text Mode
• Accents and other Symbols used in Text
• Active Characters and Special Symbols in Text
• Producing Mathematical Formulae using LaTeX
• Mathematics Mode
• Characters in Mathematics Mode
• Superscripts and Subscripts
• Greek Letters
• Mathematical Symbols
• Changing Fonts in Mathematics Mode
• Standard Functions (sin, cos etc.)
• Text Embedded in Displayed Equations
• Fractions and Roots
• Ellipsis (i.e., `three dots')
• Accents in Mathematics Mode
• Brackets and Norms
• Multiline Formulae in LaTeX
• Matrices and other arrays in LaTeX
• Derivatives, Limits, Sums and Integrals
• Further Features of LaTeX
• Producing White Space in LaTeX
• Lists
• Displayed Quotations
• Pre-Formatted Text
• Tables
• The Preamble of the LaTeX Input file
• Defining your own Control Sequences in LaTeX
• Theorem Environments
• 2.3 A Hypertext Index of LaTeX Commands
• 2.4 Templates
• 2.5 More Web References

3. Website and HTML Tools
Here is the link for setting up leland class webpages.

The help sections below use setting up a class webpage as an example.

• 3.1 Basics
• 3.2 Viewing a Text File
• 3.3 Creating a Heading
• 3.4 Creating Subheadings
• 3.5 Bolding Text
• 3.6 Formatting Text With Line Breaks
• 3.7 Centering Text
• 3.8 Creating Lists
• 3.9 Creating a Horizontal Line
• 3.10 Creating Links to Other Web Pages
• 3.11 Adding an Internal Link
• 3.12 Adding a Graphic
• 3.13 Adding HTML Document Tags
• 3.14 Web Vocabulary
• 3.15 Resources on the World Wide Web
• 3.16 Using Color
• 3.17 Formatting with Tables
• 3.16 Templates for Class Webpages

4. The TA Download Library

• 4.1 What is this library?
• 4.2 How to submit items to the library
• 4.3 Handouts and Reference
• 4.3.1 Computer Help
• Splus
• SAS
• SPSS
• Minitab
• Stata
• Matlab
• Unix
• X-Windows
• Emacs
• 4.3.2 Classes
• 60
• 110
• 116
• 190
• 4.4 Datasets for use in teaching
• StatLib